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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1981
Curb cuts are for wheelchairs
By RACHEL BOSTWICK
Battalion Reporter
Alpha Phi Omega is trying to
make students aware of what
curb cuts in the campus side
walks are designed for—wheel
chairs, not bicycles or motorcy
cles.
To do this, APO will be paint
ing a handicap emblem on Texas
A&M University campus side
walk ramps March 29.
Dr. Charles Powell, coordi
nator of veterans affairs and acti
vities for the handicapped,
asked the Texas A&M service
organization for help.
“It’s something that needs to
be done,” Powell said. “You’ll
find as many people with bicy
cles who believe curb cuts were
put there for them, as there are
those who know the cuts are for
the handicapped.”
Usage of the curb cuts by bi
cycles is not a problem, Powell
said. What is a problem, he
said, are bicycles and motorcy-
j cles parked in front of the curb
cuts and building entrances.
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ramps or inside buildings.
“People need to be consider
ate if a wheelchair student com-
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Powell said the emblems are
designed to let people know
what the ramps are for.
Powell said he talked to Gene
Ray, director of grounds
maintenance, about the pro
ject, and he agreed to furnish
paint and stencils if the labor
was provided. Having an ad
vised APO for several years,
Powell said he knew the or
ganization was always looking
for projects, so he asked APO
for help.
Sharron Cox, assistant chair
man of the APO service com
mittee, said the organization
hopes to get the project finished
in one day, depending on how
fast the members work, location
of all the curb cuts and the
weather.
Powell said the University
meets the requirements set
down in section 504 of the 1973
Rehabilitation Act. This section
says that no handicapped per
son can be excluded from the
participation in or benefits of
any program or activity receiv
ing federal money. Powell said
they plan to take this one step
further by painting the
emblems on the ramps.
Powell said that the Universi
ty has over 200 handicapped
students, 14 of these are stu
dents in wheelchairs.
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hvironmentalclub meets tonight
y FRANK L. CHRISTUEB
Battalion Reporter
The Environmental Awareness
ind Action Club, formed earlier
is semester by graduate stu-
jents who wanted to stimulate en-
onmental interest locally, will
istribui'ineet tonight at 7:30 in Room Cll
he Grill: of the Langford Architecture
i W , Or Center.
I Julie Marcy, a graduate student
in environmental interpretation,
is one of the students who helped
eate the club. She said that even
ough the club is open to all peo-
Ele, it has attracted only a small
number of graduate students so
far.
[ Marcy said organizers of the
‘club are trying to stir up interest
)
Battalion
^ officers
^chosen
Battalion and group comman-
^ ders for next year will be:
First Battalion — Timothy Bea
ty, an animal science major from
Do Leon.
I Second Battalion — Norris
fHodgin, an animal science major
from Tilden.
| Third Battalion — Roy Brock, a
pildlife biology major from San
Antonio.
Fourth Battalion — James
atcher, an agricultural econo-
ics major from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Fifth Battalion — Robert
’Hughes, an earth science major
from El Paso.
— i—^ Sixth Battalion — Robert Mar-
shall, a mechanical engineering
major from Washington, D.C.
First Group — Arthur Pregler,
an environmental design major
om Kerrville.
Second Group — Ronald
lughbaum, a management major
m Houston.
Third Group — James Nally, a
[Otroleum engineering major
nu ‘“JaBom San Antonio.
rrt 5 ’ Jf Artillery Band — Kenneth
an aprjLePori, an agricultural economics
paling®fpjor from Gonzales.
Infantry Band — Duane
chwarz, a civil engineering major
!om Waco.
among students of different ma
jors to give the club a broad spec
trum of interests.
The club is planning different
activities which include:
— community education and
publications concerning the en
vironment;
— a cleanup program and work
shop associated with Earth Day, a
national effort to make people
aware of their environment;
— the formation of a recycling
information center;
— presentation of guest speak
ers at club meetings;
— polling of the campus and
community to determine levels of
environmental awareness.
In the process of carrying out
these projects, the club may be
involved with environmental
agencies such as the National
Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club,
Audubon Society and Cousteau
Society. However, the club will
not be officially affiliated with any
of these organizations.
Marcy said the club has held
three meetings in Langford Cll.
Since the club is new and is still
trying to attract members, dues
for joining have not been set.
Tonight’s meeting will feature a
presentation by Professor George
Knox, chairman of the Scientific
Commission for Antarctic Re
search (SCAR). SCAR is a non
governmental international body
that primarily monitors Antarctic
marine research throughout the
world.
Knox, who teaches at the Uni
versity of Canterbury in Christ
church, New Zealand, is traveling
to universities to talk to people
who are doing Antarctic research.
He will speak on “Conservation
and Exploration of Antarctic
Marine Living Resources” about
30 minutes after the start of the
meeting tonight.
By KAREN KALEY
Battalion Reporter
Passive solar design can be built
into new homes, and energy
saving features can be added to
existing homes, a professor of
architecture and building said
Monday night.
Larry Degelman spoke at the
solar energy seminar sponsored
by the Texas Energy Extension
Service.
He said that a passive solar heat
ing or cooling system uses natural
thermal energy flow in which no
mechanical help is needed.
Degelman discussed five types
of passive solar design — direct
gain, greenhouse, thermal stor
age, roof pond and convective
loop.
A variation of the direct gain de
sign would work best for the
Bryan-College Station area, he
said.
The direct gain design uses a
combination of glass and mass to
get its solar energy, Degelman
said. The south wall of the house
must have glass paneling to allow
light and heat access to the energy
storing mass, he said. Heat is
stored in heavy floors and walls,
the mass.
“The heat is intercepted tem
porarily until the vents are opened
and the air allowed to move
through the house,” he said.
Humidity can cause cooling
problems in the southern part of
the country, he said. Research is
now being done to find a way to
efficiently cool a home with solar
energy, he added.
“I think the solution here in
College Station is shade,” Degel
man said. “As long as we have this
humidity problem, we will prob
ably have air conditioning.”
Passive solar energy designs are
difficult to add to existing homes,
Degelman said. But adding cer
tain features can cut the cost of
energy, he said.
Extra insulation, shades, blinds
or added screens can help lower
energy costs, he said.
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